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Elections

Finally, a state Senate debate

Tim Redmond - September 27, 2020

Plus: The municipal corruption scandal and the state of the city's economy. That's The Agenda for Sept. 28-Oct. 4

Housing

Two opportunities to address Black housing inequities

Natalia Robyns-Kresich - September 9, 2020

Midtown in SF and Golden Gate Village in Marin could become models for Black self-determination.

Housing

City Planning (finally) admits it has a problem

Tim Redmond - July 23, 2020

The Land Use and Transportation Committee hearing this week was remarkable: For the first time ever, as far as I can remember, the Planning...

Housing

At Midtown, loud construction disturbs shelter-in-place

Natalia Robyns-Kresich - May 27, 2020

At the Midtown housing complex in the Western Addition, tenants are doing their best to comply with the city’s shelter-in-place order, but are facing...

Housing

Preston wants rent control for Midtown

Natalia Robyns-Kresich - January 9, 2020

Supervisor Dean Preston announced Tuesday the introduction of legislation that would bring the Fillmore-Western Addition’s historic Midtown Park Apartments under rent control. The rents at...

News + Politics

Our top stories of 2019

Marke B. - December 28, 2019

From the election of Chesa Boudin and Dean Preston to a renewed spirit of arts and culture in the face of displacement, the 48...

News + Politics

Two big victories for tenants at Midtown apartments

Natalia Robyns-Kresich - November 11, 2019

Five years into the ongoing campaign for tenant ownership and self-management at the Midtown Park Apartments, residents have won two major victories. Earlier this year,...

News + Politics

The Patty Hearst kidnapping and the rise of community-based organizations in SF

Calvin Welch - April 25, 2019

UPDATED, see the end. The 1974 kidnapping of Patricia “Patty” Hearst, granddaughter of the founder of the Hearst media empire, was a dramatic chapter in...

News + Politics

The bizarre argument in favor of Wiener’s housing bill

Tim Redmond - April 7, 2019

A Board of Supes committee has passed a resolution opposing SB 50, the Scott Wiener bill that would allow a lot more market-rate housing...

News + Politics

The wolves of Wall Street, here in San Francisco

Jessica Lindquist - September 10, 2018

Nicole has resorted to storing her wages in an office desk drawer at her place of work after funds she was saving for a...

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Finally, a state Senate debate

Two opportunities to address Black housing inequities

City Planning (finally) admits it has a problem

At Midtown, loud construction disturbs shelter-in-place

Preston wants rent control for Midtown

Our top stories of 2019

Two big victories for tenants at Midtown apartments

The Patty Hearst kidnapping and the rise of community-based organizations in SF

The bizarre argument in favor of Wiener’s housing bill

The wolves of Wall Street, here in San Francisco

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